National Theatre Live brings you the best of British theatre broadcast from London to a world-wide audience via satellite to over 300 venues in 22 countries around the globe. This exciting initiative launched its five show pilot season in 2009 with Phèdre starring Helen Mirren.
A season of incredible plays and musicals captured live in high-definition and broadcast around the world. The productions are shot in an up-close-and-personal style so you'll feel like you're there. Save money on a trip abroad and experience the best of the British stage as we transform our theatre into a state-of-the-art cinema!
Tickets:
ALL SHOWS $20. Senior and student discounts are available.
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Collaborators is a new play by John Hodge (screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach) directed by National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner. The play centres on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (best known for his novel The Master and Margarita); Alex Jennings (The Habit of Art) will play Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale (London Assurance) will play Stalin.
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl isentranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timbermerchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
Dominic Cooke, director of the celebrated Royal Court Theatre in London, makes his National Theatre debut directing a new production of Shakespeare's delirious romp through mistaken identity, The Comedy of Errors. Famed UK comedian and actor Lenny Henry performs the role of Antipholus of Syracuse.
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